Chapter 9: Information Protection

Users and organizations work with ever-growing volumes and types of data, spread over various repositories, and security personnel and administrators have to protect an increasing number of resources. Not all resources are equal; some store more sensitive information than others, and to effectively protect their environments, security professionals have to know where to prioritize the protection.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud supports SQL information protection policies – a classification mechanism, and Microsoft Purview integration as well, which is a data governance service. With these capabilities and service integrations, Defender for Cloud can provide additional alerts and recommendations based on discovered ...

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